Information and communication technologies and health in low income countries: the potential and the constraints
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...Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is required to improve the efficiency and accuracy of healthcare organisations (Chandrasekhar and Ghosh, 2001)....
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...However, the literature provides a number of examples where assumptions about ICTs being critical for bringing about change in developing countries have been problematic (Avgerou and Walsham, 2001; Madon, 1993; Chandrasekhar and Ghosh, 2001; Silva and Figueroa, 2002)....
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...The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help healthcare sectors in developing countries to potentially plan, monitor, control, and improve health services as well as communicate more effectively across organizational hierarchies (Bhatnagar, 1992; Braa and Blobel, 2003; WHO, 2005; Chandrasekhar and Ghosh, 2001; Mosse, 2005)....
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...…(ICTs) can help healthcare sectors in developing countries to potentially plan, monitor, control, and improve health services as well as communicate more effectively across organizational hierarchies (Bhatnagar, 1992; Braa and Blobel, 2003; WHO, 2005; Chandrasekhar and Ghosh, 2001; Mosse, 2005)....
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